Stage Actress
Walker made her stage debut as a teen. At nineteen she performed in London in a comedy called The Mummy. She performed with Richard Mansfield and later returned to her native Texas.
Walker is most noted for her performance as June in Trail of the Lonesome Pine, in 1911. She would later reprise the role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 screen version. David Belasco noticed her in On Parole. He signed her for starring roles in plays The Warrens of Virginia, Just A Wife, and Call The Doctor. Each of the Belasco productions was staged prior to World War I.
She continued to act on the Broadway stage. In 1923 she played with Ethel Barrymore in The School For Scandal. It was produced by the Player's Club.
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